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Threading text frames - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2025 Essential Training
Threading text frames
- [Instructor] It's time to talk about threading text frames together. Now, I've opened up this brochure file from the exercise folder, and I can see here that I have a couple of text frames, one that has text in it and one that's empty. If you look down here in the lower-right corner of the frame on the left, you see a little symbol, a little red plus sign, and that plus sign is an indicator that this frame is overset. There's more text in this story than can fit into the frame. Now, we could make the text frame bigger, of course, but in this case, what we want is for the text to flow from this frame to the empty frame over here. This is called threading. You thread from one text frame to another. Now, you'd think you'd use the type tool to accomplish this. After all you're dealing with text, but in fact it won't work with the type tool. You have to use the selection tool. Now, when you have any text frame selected with the selection tool, you'll notice a little box in the upper-left…
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